Working for women's equality and ordination in the Catholic Church: 'There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is no longer slave or free, there is no longer male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus'. Galatians 3.28

Now is the time: A celebration of women's call to a renewed priesthood (Dublin 2001)

Women's Ordination Worldwide (WOW)'s first international conference was held in Dublin 2001. See here for full archives and photographs of the conference. WOW - working for the legal ordination of women and inclusion of women in all realms of leadership in the Roman Catholic Church Ordain women - WOW!

Let the Truth be Told

The Organising Committee of the WOW 2001 Conference wish to make it clear that, in spite of some misleading press publicity, Bishop Pat Buckley did not attend the conference, and played no part in it whatsoever.

Notwithstanding statements to the contrary by a spokesperson in the Vatican and by others, we bear witness that Sr. Myra Poole and Sr. Joan Chittister were subjected to great personal pressure and stress in the attempt to force them to withdraw from the conference, and were given to understand by the Roman authorities that they were under threat of expulsion from their communities.

Women's Ordination Worldwide

Women's Ordination Worldwide (WOW) is a dynamic international umbrella network working for women's ordination in the Roman Catholic Church. WOW's founding principal is equality.

'There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is no longer slave or free, there is no longer male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus'. Galatians 3.28

Founded in 1996 at the First European Women's Synod in Austria, Women's Ordination Worldwide (WOW) is an ecumenical network of national and international groups whose primary mission at this time is the admission of Roman Catholic women to all ordained ministries.